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Isabel Wilkerson

This person is the author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Martin Luther King

This person was a prominent American leader in the Civil Rights Movement of the middle of the twentieth century, who advocated nonviolent strategies.

Mohandas Gandhi

This person was a prominent Indian leader who championed Indian independence from Great Britain using nonviolent means.

Dalits

These people are the lowest caste in India, derogatorily referred to as "Untouchables."

Bhimrao Ambedkar

This person was an Indian scholar who studied caste and corresponded with W.E.B. Du Bois regarding race and caste in America.

W.E.B. Du Bois

This person was an eminent African-American scholar of the early twentieth century.

Miss

This Black person was given an honorific as a first name by her father, who resented Whites' overfamiliarity with his mother and who never forgot the trauma of the police brutality at Edmund...

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